craigslist

Craigslist (craigslist communities) is an online directory including classified ads and a community message board for specific urban areas. Creator Craig Newmark launched the site in 1995 in San Francisco; it is currently located in nearly 200 cities worldwide. Now the top classified ads service, craigslist is in the top ten of Internet companies.

Last updated: April 25, 2006.

A Web site of classified ads and community notices that serves an urban area. It was started in 1995 in San Francisco by Craig Newmark and since spread to hundreds of cities in more than 50 countries. Listings are free, but job postings in major cities are paid. For more information, visit www.craigslist.org.

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Type: Private Company
Address: 1381 9th Avenue, San Francisco, California, 94122, U.S.A.
Telephone: (415) 566-6394
Toll Free: (800) 664-0633
Fax: (415) 504-6394
Web: http://www.craigslist.org
Employees: 24
Sales: $25 million (2006 est.)
Incorporated: 1999
NAIC: 516110 Internet Publishing and Broadcasting

Based in San Francisco's Cole Valley neighborhood, craigslist, inc., is a web site whose proponents describe it as a "community that uses internet technology to provide a platform for people to use to help other people." More than 20 million people in 450 cities in more than 50 countries use craigslist each month, creating 17 million classified ads for jobs, housing, goods, services, romance, and local activities, and sharing their opinions and advice on forums. Craigslist receives more than seven billion page views per month. It supports itself by charging below-market fees for job ads in seven cities and for brokered apartment listings in New York City.

1994-99: From One Man's Social Calendar to Internet Phenomenon

In the early 1990s, Craig Newmark, a systems security consultant for Charles Schwab, was looking for a way to improve his social life. Newmark had had a long career in computers; from 1976 to 1993, after leaving New Jersey and earning undergraduate and master's degrees in computer science from Case Western Reserve University, he became a senior associate programmer and then an advisory open systems specialist for IBM. Newmark, a self-described "nerd," planted the seed for craigslist in 1994 with the "honest intent of connecting with community, of trying to connect with other people. ... In our culture, I think we crave that," he explained in a San Francisco Chronicle article in 2004. Newmark's e-mail list, which he circulated among friends and acquaintances in his new hometown of San Francisco, contained events and happenings in and around the Bay Area.

Newmark's list grew by word of mouth and became extremely popular. "[M]ore people wanted in on the thing. Over time people started to say, 'Hey, can we put this job on there?' or 'Can you post this thing I want to sell?'" Newmark recounted in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2004. When the dot-com boom created an apartment shortage in San Francisco, he started to post apartment listings. By the middle of 1995, Newmark had about 240 names on his list, and the e-mail tool he was using started to break down. Consequently, he began to use a list server, which meant he needed a name for his undertaking. He thought about calling his brainchild SF Events, but people were already calling it craigslist; he went with the eponym instead.

Soon after Newmark started craigslist, he left Schwab and started doing software contracting in 1995. This arrangement gave him more time off as well as more income. Newmark made use of his coding expertise, and craigslist metamorphosed into an unadorned web site. According to Newmark in a 2004 San Francisco Chronicle article, "[I]n December 1998, I was told by some of our customers that things needed fixing. After a certain amount of procrastination and denial, I admitted they were right. I left the startup I had briefly joined and started making a real company."

By 1999 it became clear, according to Newmark in the same 2004 San Francisco Chronicle article, that "we had to become a serious business. ... We were trying to do it with volunteers, and things were falling apart." He incorporated his company as a for-profit venture with a staff of four, using the ".org" designation to indicate craigslist's commitment to community and nonprofits. "The org indicates intent, in the sense that we're like a commons," he explained in the Economist in 2004.

The following year, Newmark hired Jim Buckmaster, who had been doing web programming and who had posted his resume on craigslist in late 1999. Buckmaster became the company's president and chief executive in 2000. His background included a biochemistry degree from Virginia Tech, a stint at medical school, and a decade in a commune in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Together, Newmark and Buckmaster split up the responsibilities of running the business, whose staff numbered about 12, according to their talent and inclination. Buckmaster, who was far less social than Newmark, took on the administrative issues of the business. Newmark took over customer service, following up on complaints about postings and personally answering all of his e-mail from a café in his neighborhood called the Reverie.

2000-04: Maximizing Social Capital, Giving Back to the Community

From the start, craigslist steered clear of banner ads, pop-ups, give-aways, stock quotes, sports scores, and hot links. In addition, customers did not need to register to use the site. Because the company did not attempt to maximize revenues, it was able to exist without sales, marketing, or advertising teams or a plan for business development. It used open source software, such as Linux, which meant it had no licensing costs to pay. "We try to maximize social capital rather than financial capital," explained Jim Buckmaster in a 2006 Daily Telegraph article of the philosophy that held sway at craigslist from the start. "We get a lot of personal satisfaction from all the thank-you notes we get from people. We have it pretty darn good. We just don't see any reason to try and put a bunch of zeros at the end of bank balances that are perfectly adequate."

"We're not so much anti-capitalist," said Buckmaster, who lived in a rented house and had never owned a car. "We're fortunate enough to have built a very healthy business, even though we haven't attempted to." Newmark, who owned a modest home in San Francisco and drove a Toyota Prius, explained it thus in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2001. "I have no objections to being rich, and I'm sure not anti-commercial, but we made a conscious decision about what craigslist was all about. And it's not about making money."

The craigslist team also dedicated itself to giving back to the nonprofit community. Each year beginning in 1995, it held an annual craigslist party in San Francisco. In 1999, it organized a nonprofit venture forum where six nonprofits (from among 40 that auditioned) could present their cause and solution to social entrepreneurs who possessed the financial and technical means to make things happen. In 2000, it distributed most of its revenues of about $60,000 to charities or to community groups as cash grants through the new nonprofit craigslist Foundation. It also teamed up to work with Bay Area nonprofits dedicated to bringing technology to grassroots organizations. In recognition of its many accomplishments on behalf of the community, craigslist won a Webby in 2000 for being the best community web site from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.

The list continued to grow, although it kept its noncommercial aesthetic; it featured no fancy graphics or moving pictures, which would slow down page loading, and stuck to plain text and hyperlinked words for navigating among its various categories. It had "all the visual appeal of a pipe wrench," according to Buckmaster in a 2007 Globe and Mail article. Beginning in 2000, craigslist began to add other cities. Boston was first, followed by Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, San Diego, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Sacramento.

Newmark explained the process for adding a new city to the site in a 2004 San Francisco Chronicle, "We put up a city based on how many people are asking us to do so. It's also based on Jim's perception of a city's demographics and the city's broadband penetration and intuition. We use word of mouth to get the word out, though sometimes the local press is kind." All cities came under the umbrella of craigslist and used the same URL, although each relied upon its own local volunteers. "Our philosophy is, find people in other places with the same spirit as craigslist. We'll provide the technical backup," Newmark explained in a May 2000 Investor's Business Daily article.

By 2001, there were 13 American cities and one Canadian city on craigslist, which together received a total of 60 million page hits per month and published 170,000 classifieds and 54,000 postings on discussion boards. By the start of 2004, there were close to 30 craigslist cities across the United States, one in Canada, and one in England. Five million unique visitors came aboard craigslist each month and totaled up one billion page views. By the end of the year, craigslist hosted close to 60 different cities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Australia, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, India, and Brazil.

As the number of postings on craigslist soared into the multiple millions, there were, of course, some bad apples in the bunch. The site made a policy of tolerating no hate-filled postings and none that took advantage of minors, but there were no site moderators. Craigslist relied upon site visitors to alert it to offending postings, which it would then remove, as Newmark explained in the 2004 San Francisco Chronicle article: "[I]f anyone sees an ad they feel is wrong, they can flag it for removal. If enough people agree, it's removed. ... Whenever there is a problem and a person just keeps doing this [posting inappropriately], we try reasoning with them. That usually works."

Revenues grew apace with craigslist's popularity and its steadily increasing flow of traffic, as did its staff. In 2003, the staff of 12 made the decision, after polling users to see what they thought, to start charging $75 for employment ads on its San Francisco site to solve the problem of repeated listings for the same position. By 2004, revenues had reached around $7 million and the staff numbered 15. The mayor of San Francisco pronounced October 10, 2004, craigslist Day in the Golden Gate City. A documentary on craigslist, called 24 Hours on craigslist, also appeared in 2004.

Beginning around 2001, Newmark received regular offers to sell craigslist, which he summarily turned down. In August 2004, however, a former craigslist employee sold 25 percent of the firm to eBay for somewhere between $12 million and $15 million. Newmark had given the equity away some years earlier as a means of "establishing checks and balances" within the company. He admitted that the sale had not been part of his plan, but he was "happy with the results." The partnership with eBay allowed the two companies to share knowledge, expertise, and programming. It helped craigslist expand into overseas cities, developing non-English-language versions and shutting down overseas spammers and scammers. EBay, for its part, benefited from craigslist's listing model.

2005-07: Challenging Classifieds Ads with Its Astronomical Growth

By early 2005, craigslist had grown to serve more than 75 cities and was attracting more than six million visitors and three million postings per month; by the end of the year, there were close to 200 cities and two billion hits by as many as eight million unique viewers. Nielsen/NetRatings ranked craigslist 13th on the top 20 list of general interest portals and community destinations on the Web. It earned between $7 million and $10 million in revenues from its New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles job listings. Users viewed the job pages more than any other area, yet the 160,000 job postings monthly constituted only slightly more than 3 percent of the site's five million classifieds. In New York alone, from mid-2004 to 2005, site usage grew 25 percent; during the same period nationally, usage of craigslist increased 73 percent. By year's end, craigslist attracted 9.8 million users per month in the United States.

By this time, magazines and journals were beginning to talk about the effect that craigslist was having in the marketplace where sales of classifieds were sluggish and help-wanted ads were slow. In 2005, Knight-Ridder and Tribune Co. began to offer its own free classifieds for the sale of low-cost merchandise. Other Internet giants, such as Google, Microsoft, and eBay, all three of which had introduced rival classified services by 2006, presented their own increased competition. However, craigslist was not "losing sleep over competition," according to Buckmaster in a 2006 San Francisco Chronicle article. "Use of our site continues to grow rapidly to the point of challenging us to keep up with it."

In an impressive growth spurt, in November 2006 alone, the site added 130 new cities, and, by 2007, when it added the feature of a voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) link that hid user contact numbers, there were 450 local listings services in 50 states and 50 countries. Revenues, still limited to fees for recruitment ads in seven U.S. cities--San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Boston, Seattle, and San Diego--and apartment ads in New York City had brought in an estimated $25 million in 2006. In addition, though still relatively unknown in the United Kingdom, where there were ten cities on craigslist, traffic there had tripled in 2006.

Newmark claimed in a June 2007 Presstime article not to notice the development. "We only look at numbers for our own curiosity and for the performance curve. We have no advertisers to keep happy, no investors to keep happy--which is a great relief." Asked whether craigslist could be a model for a successful business in a 2004 San Francisco Chronicle article, Newmark replied, "Well there's a basic cliché that I guess applies: 'Doing well by doing good.'" At 15 million unique users and seven billion hits a month by mid-2007, craigslist was the ninth most popular U.S. web site and 37th most popular in the world, according to www.Alexa.com. The company, quite obviously, was helping further the vision of the Internet as democratic, accessible to all, and noncommercial, and serving as a powerful community-building tool around the world.

Principal Competitors

Friendster, Inc.; Meetup Inc.; Tribe Networks, Inc.; Evite; Lavalife Inc.; LinkedIn Corporation; Monster Worldwide, Inc.; MySpace.com; Tickle Inc.; Yahoo! Inc.

Further Reading

Cave, Andrew, "Jim Buckmaster Craigslist Chief Executive," Daily Telegraph (U.K.), March 18, 2006, p. 34.

"Craigslist; On the Record: Craig Newmark," San Francisco Chronicle, August 15, 2004, p. J1.

"Cult Web Site Hits Dublin," Business & Finance Magazine, July 1, 2004.

Galant, Richard, "Craigslist Founder Holds on Tight to His 'Inner Nerd,'" Seattle Times, February 7, 2005, p. C1.

Ganahl, Jane, "Craigslist's Craig Newmark: Web's Wonder Boy," San Francisco Chronicle, July 29, 2001, p. A1.

Howell, Donna, "Craig's Online List of Stuff Became Popular Web Job Site," Investor's Business Daily, May 25, 2000, p. 6.

Ingram, Mathew, "Craigslist Lets Users Call All Its Shots," Globe and Mail, June 7, 2007, p. B19.

Kopytoff, Verne, "Low-Key Style Suits This Dot-Com CEO," San Francisco Chronicle, May 28, 2006, p. F1.

— Carrie Rothburd

For the 2009 "Weird Al" Yankovic song, see Craigslist (song).

Craigslist Inc.

Type	Private
Founded	1995 (incorporated 1999)
Founder	Craig Newmark
Headquarters	San Francisco Bay Area, USA[1]
Area served	570 cities in 50 countries
Key people	Jim Buckmaster (CEO)
Revenue	Not published
Owner	Craig Newmark
Employees	28
Website	www.craigslist.org
Type of site	Classifieds, forums
Advertising	None
Registration	Optional
Available in	English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portugese
Launched	1995
Current status	Active
Screenshot Screenshot of the main page on January 26, 2008

Craig Newmark 2006, the founder of craigslist

Craigslist is a centralized network of online communities, featuring free online classified advertisements – with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums.

Contents 1 Description 2 Background 3 Significant events for Craigslist 3.1 Related media 4 Criticism 5 Nonprofit foundation 6 Cities 7 Languages 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External links 11.1 Official sites 11.2 News and media

Description

Craig Newmark began the service in 1995 as an email distribution list of friends, featuring local events in the San Francisco Bay Area, before becoming a web-based service in 1996. After incorporation as a private for-profit company in 1999, Craigslist expanded into nine more U.S. cities in 2000, four each in 2001 and 2002, and 14 in 2003. As of April 2009^[update], Craigslist has established itself in approximately 570 cities in 50 countries.

As of 2009^[update], Craigslist operates with a staff of 28 people.^[2] Its sole source of revenue is paid job ads in select cities – $75 per ad for the San Francisco Bay Area; $25 per ad for New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Boston, Seattle, Washington D.C., Chicago, and Portland, Oregon – and paid broker apartment listings in New York City ($10 per ad).

The site serves over twenty billion page views per month, putting it in 22nd place overall among web sites world wide, eighth place overall among web sites in the United States (per Alexa.com on June 19, 2009), to over fifty million unique monthly visitors in the United States alone (per Compete.com on April 7, 2009). As of March 17, 2009 it was ranked 7th on Alexa. With over forty million new classified advertisements each month, Craigslist is the leading classifieds service in any medium. The site receives over one million new job listings each month, making it one of the top job boards in the world.^[3] The classified advertisements range from traditional buy/sell ads and community announcements, to personal ads and adult services (previously erotic services).

In December 2006, at the UBS Global Media Conference in New York, Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster told Wall Street analysts that Craigslist has little interest in maximizing profit, instead preferring to help users find cars, apartments, jobs, and dates.^[4][5]

The company does not formally disclose financial or ownership information. Analysts and commentators have reported varying figures for its annual revenue, ranging from $10 million in 2004, $20 million in 2005, and $25 million in 2006 to possibly $150 million in 2007.^[6][7][8] It is believed to be owned principally by Newmark, Buckmaster, and eBay (the three board members). eBay owns approximately 25%, and Newmark is believed to own the largest stake.^[8][9][10]

Background

Craigslist headquarters in San Francisco's Sunset District

Having observed people helping one another in friendly, social and trusting communal ways on the Internet, the WELL, and Usenet, and feeling isolated as a relative newcomer to San Francisco, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark decided to create something similar for local events.^[11]

The first emailed San Francisco event listings debuted in early 1995. The initial technology encountered some limits, so by June 1995 majordomo had been installed and the mailing list "craigslist" resumed operations. Most of the early postings were submitted by Newmark and were notices of social events of interest to software and Internet developers living and working in San Francisco.

Soon, word of mouth led to rapid growth. Both subscribers and the number of postings grew rapidly. There was no moderation, so Newmark was surprised when people started using the mailing list for non-event postings.^{[citation needed]} People trying to fill technical positions found that the list was a good way to reach people with the skills they were looking for. This led to the addition of a category for "jobs". User demand for more categories caused the list of categories to grow. About this time, community members started asking for a web interface. Newmark enlisted the help of volunteers and contractors to create a website user interface for the different mailing list categories.^{[citation needed]} Needing a domain name for this, Craig registered "craigslist.org" (and later, "craigslist.com", to prevent the name "craigslist" from being used for other purposes).^{[citation needed]} About this time, Newmark realized that the site was growing so fast that he could stop working as a software engineer and work full time running craigslist. By April 2000, there were nine employees working out of Newmark's apartment on Cole Street in San Francisco.^[12]

Newmark says that Craigslist works because it gives people a voice, a sense of community trust and even intimacy. Other factors he cites are consistency of down-to-earth values, customer service and simplicity. After first being approached about running banner ads, Newmark decided to decline. In 2002, Craigslist staff posted mock-banner ads throughout the site as an April Fools joke.^[13]

To avoid illegal or inappropriate postings, Craigslist allows users to flag a posting that appears to violate the site's policies.

Significant events for Craigslist

• In January 2000, current CEO Jim Buckmaster joined the company as lead programmer and CTO. Buckmaster contributed the site's multi-city architecture, search engine, discussion forums, flagging system, self-posting process, homepage design, personals categories, and best-of-Craigslist feature. He was promoted to CEO in November 2000.^[14]

• In 2002, a disclaimer was put on the "men seeking men", "casual encounters", "erotic services", and "rants and raves" boards to ensure that those who clicked on these sections were over the age of 18. No disclaimer was on the "men seeking women", "women seeking men" or "women seeking women" boards. Responding to charges of discrimination and negative stereotyping, Buckmaster explained that the company's policy is a response to user feedback requesting the warning on the more sexually explicit sections, including "men seeking men."^[15] Today, all of the above listed boards (as well as some others) lead to a disclaimer.

• On August 1, 2004, Craigslist began charging $25 to post job openings on the New York and Los Angeles pages. On the same day, a new section was added called "Gigs", where low-cost and unpaid jobs and internships can be posted free.

• On August 13, 2004, Newmark announced on his blog that auction giant eBay had purchased a 25% stake in the company from a former principal. Some fans of Craigslist have expressed concern that this development will affect the site's longtime non-commercial nature, but it remains to be seen what ramifications the change will actually have. As of July 2008^[update], there have been no substantive changes to the usefulness or non-advertising nature of the site (still no banner ads, still only charging for a few services to businesses).

• In July 2005, Craigslist won the right to beam over 2 million classified ads into deep space (one light year away) in the near future after Buckmaster won an eBay auction for broadcasting time from the company Deep Space Communications Network. Newmark said, "We believe there could be an infinite market opportunity" in space.^[16]

• In April 2008, eBay announced it was suing Craigslist to "safeguard its four-year financial investment." eBay claimed that in January 2008, Craigslist executives took actions that "unfairly diluted eBay's economic interest by more than 10%."^[17] In response, Craigslist filed a countersuit against eBay in May 2008 "to remedy the substantial and ongoing harm to fair competition" that Craigslist claims is constituted by eBay's actions as Craigslist shareholders.^[18]

• On May 13 2009, Craigslist announced that it will close the 'Erotic services' section, replacing it with an 'adult services' section where the postings will be reviewed by Craigslist employees. This decision comes after allegations by several US states that the erotic services ads were being used for prostitution.^[19]

Related media

• In 2003, Michael Ferris Gibson filmed the documentary 24 Hours on Craigslist.

• In November 2007, Ryan J. Davis directed Jeffery Self's solo show My Life on the Craigslist at Off-Broadway's New World Stages.^[20] The show focuses on a young man's sexual experiences on Craigslist and was so successful that it returned to New York by popular demand in February 2008.^[21]
• On June 16, 2009, "Weird Al" Yankovic released a song entitled "Craigslist" which is a parody of the website, done in the style of The Doors.

Criticism

• In July 2005, the San Francisco Chronicle criticized Craigslist for allowing ads from dog breeders, and thereby allegedly encouraging the over breeding and irresponsible selling of pit bulls in the Bay Area.^[22]

• In January 2006, the San Francisco Bay Guardian published an editorial criticizing Craigslist for moving into local communities and "threatening to eviscerate" local alternative newspapers. Craigslist has been compared to Wal-Mart, a multinational corporation that some feel crushes small local businesses when they move into towns and offer a huge assortment of goods at cheaper prices.^[23]
• In August 2007, Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin wrote a letter to Craigslist asking the company to take steps to avoid unwittingly enabling child prostitution through its classified ads.^[24][25]

Nonprofit foundation

In 2001, the company started the Craigslist Foundation, a § 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that helps emerging nonprofit organizations get established, gain visibility, attract the attention of potential donors, and develop the skills and knowledge required for long-term success.

It accepts charitable donations, and rather than directly funding organizations, it produces "face-to-face events and offers online resources to help grassroots organizations get off the ground and contribute real value to the community".

Cities

The first 14 city sites were:^[10] (entire list)

• March 1995: San Francisco Bay Area
• June 2000: Boston
• August 2000: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, San Diego, Seattle, Washington, D.C.
• October 2000: Sacramento
• April 2001: Atlanta, Austin, Denver, Vancouver

Vancouver, British Columbia was the first non-U.S. city included. London was the first city outside North America.

In November 2004, Amsterdam, Bangalore, Paris, São Paulo, and Tokyo became the first cities outside primarily English-speaking countries.

As of May 2008^[update], 500 "cities" in 50 countries are represented.^[10] Some Craigslist sites cover large regions instead of individual metropolitan areas — for example, the U.S. states of Delaware and Wyoming, the Colorado Western Slope, the California Gold Country, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan are among the locations with their own Craigslist sites.

Languages

In March 2008, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese became the first non-English languages supported.^[26]

See also

• Craigslist controversies and illegal activities by users

References

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15. ^ "Warning: men seeking men—Craigslist posts disclaimer for gay male personals". Southern Voice. 2005-08-31. http://www.sovo.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=2296. Retrieved on 2007-09-06. 
16. ^ "Beam your craigslist ad into space". 2005-07-15. http://www.craigslist.org/about/space.html. Retrieved on 2007-09-06. 
17. ^ "EBay sues Craigslist ad website". BBC. 2008-04-23. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7362221.stm. Retrieved on 2008-05-08. 
18. ^ "Craigslist strikes back at eBay". BBC. 2008-05-13. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7399720.stm. Retrieved on 2008-05-13. 
19. ^ "Craigslist to Remove Category for Erotic Services". New York Times. 2009-05-13. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/technology/companies/14craigslist.html. 
20. ^ Hetrick, Adam (2007-10-17). "Jeffery Self to Offer My Life on the Craigslist at New World Stages Nov. 1". Playbill. http://www.playbill.com/news/article/111961.html. Retrieved on 2008-05-08. 
21. ^ "'My Life on the Craigslist' Returns Feb. 15, 22 & 29". Broadway World. 2008-01-23. http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=24539. Retrieved on 2008-05-08. 
22. ^ Ilene Lelchuk (July 11, 2005). "Craigslist pressured to ban dog, cat ads". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/07/11/MNGJ2DLUUH1.DTL. Retrieved on 2007-09-06. 
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Further reading

• Brafman, Ori; Rod A. Beckstrom (2006). The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations. Portfolio. ISBN 1591841437. 

External links

Wikinews has related news: Craigslist sued for hosting discriminatory housing ads

Official sites

• Craigslist homepage
• Craigslist Foundation

News and media

• Zen and the Art of Classified Advertising, a Wall Street Journal interview with Jim Buckmaster, Craigslist CEO
• Craig Newmark, Craigslist founder on the Tavis Smiley show
• List in Space: Calling the Cosmos Gets Commercial, a March 2005 article about classifieds from Craigslist
• Craigslist and the Craigslist Foundation, an October 2001 article from the San Francisco Art Magazine website
• iinnovatecast interview with Craig Newmark by Stanford business school students and alums
• Tacoma woman's house emptied after craigslist hoax News report on a house falling victim to Craigslist prank and being stripped out
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